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That clever, forever young, Anita Loos said a lot of memorable things. She spoke in one hilarious essay about stress relief and what it boiled down to was a suggestion to take up needlepoint or knitting. When I get stressed I like to walk with friends. Lanier of SCENTS MEMORY | There is nothing like the smell of a man is that tall presence on the right. I, small and unnaturally blonde (come on, at my age!) am on the […]

The Hepburn most associated with Cecil Beaton is Audrey, whose “purity and integrity,” whose “enormous understanding, tact and . . . willingness to learn” he hymned throughout “Cecil Beaton’s ‘Fair Lady’ ” (1964), the published diary of his time in Hollywood designing sets and costumes for the film version of the Lerner and Loewe musical. In “The Unexpurgated Beaton” (Knopf; $35), the diaries that the designer and photographer kept during the nineteen-seventies, his last decade, it’s the other Hepburn who […]

Gene Allen designed this lustrous Art Nouveau treat (I know what the credits say… but Mr. Allen did all the heavy lifting) – he deserves a post all his own, along with the incomparable director, George Cukor, and costume designer, Cecil Beaton – but for now, Audrey… with Rex Harrison: With producer Jack Warner and Rex Harrison:

The young Truman Capote of “Other Voices”. Beaton worried that success had changed Truman, and he wrote in his diary that “he looks like a tycoon, thickset, well-dressed, no longer the little gnome of Other Voices…. I secretly feel T. is in a bad state and may not last long.” Party of the Century by Deborah Davis The inside story of Truman Capote’s masked ball – Americas – World – The Independent.